Dr. Minlie Huang now is an associate professor of Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He received his PhD degree in 2006. He was awarded “Tsinghua Excellent Researcher Fellowship” in 2006 and was selected by “Beijing Century Young Elite Program” in 2013. His research interests include artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, sentiment understanding, and dialogue systems.
He has published 40+ papers on premier conferences such as ACL, AAAI, IJCAI, EMNLP, COLING, KDD, ICDM, CIKM, and highly-impacted journals like Bioinformatics, Genome Biology, JAMIA etc. He served as area chairs for ACL 2016, EMNLP 2014, EMNLP 2011, and reviewers for ACL, IJCAI, AAAI, EACL, COLING, EMNLP, NAACL, CIKM, ICDM, SDM, and reviewers for TOIS, TKDE, TALIP, etc. As principle investigator, he had established many collaborations with industrial companies such as Samsung, Microsoft, HP, Fujitsu, Google, ExxonMobil, and Tencent.